Prayers for New Grandmas: A 28-Day Devotional for First-Time Grandmothers on Faith, Joy, and the Legacy You Leave Your Grandchild
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For every grandmother who prayed for this child before she ever saw a face.Nobody hands you a book when you become a grandmother. When your daughter was pregnant, there was an entire industry pointed at her. This time there is a card, and then everyone turns, correctly, to the baby and its parents. And you are standing slightly off to the side, holding a feeling so large you do not know where to set it down.Prayers for New Grandmas is twenty-eight days of company for that feeling.It is honest about the parts nobody says out loud. The four seconds when you reach for a crying baby and somebody else gets there first. The advice you swallow because it is not your call anymore. The other grandmother, and the jealousy you would be mortified to admit. Wanting your own mother here, and not being able to call her. The arithmetic you do in the dark about how many years you get.And then it does something with all of it. Every reading lands in Scripture that is actually about your situation. Simeon, holding a child he had waited a lifetime for and calling it enough. Naomi, given a grandson after losing everything. And Lois, the only grandmother named in the New Testament, whose faith reached a grandson she never saw grown.Inside this devotional:28 short daily readings, about ten minutes eachFour weekly themes: The First Days, Learning Your New Place, What You Carry, and The Legacy You’re LeavingA Scripture passage and a prayer written the way you would actually say itOne closing line each day worth carrying aroundNothing to fill in and nothing to keep up with — you cannot fall behindYou do not have to be the grandmother on the greeting card. You do not have to bake, or live nearby, or have any of it figured out. You do not have to pretend the hard part is not there.A gift for a new or expecting grandmother, a baby shower, Mother’s Day, Grandparents Day, or the woman who has just been handed the best news of her life and has no idea what to do with how big it feels. Read more
